The records of the Los Angeles Stendahl Art Galleries measure 7.5 linear feet and date from 1907 to 1971. The collection is comprised of administrative and financial files, correspondence, exhibition files, and subject files on numerous artists, organizations, and other art-related topics. There is one scrapbook of clippings on the artist Edgar Payne.
Scope and Contents:
The records of the Los Angeles Stendahl Art Galleries measure 7.5 linear feet and date from 1907 to 1971. The collection is comprised of administrative and financial files, correspondence, exhibition files, and subject files on numerous artists, organizations, and other art-related topics. There is one scrapbook of clippings on the artist Edgar Payne.
Administrative and financial files concern advertising, publicity, consignments, inventory, purchases, sales, leases, and biographical information on Earl Stendahl.
The bulk of the correspondence is pre-World War II and is fairly extensive. It is with artists, organizations, collectors, art historians,and galleries. Signicant correspondents include Alexander Archipenko, Federico Beltran-Masses, Alexander Calder, Federico Cantú, Jean Charlot, Couvoisier Galleries, José de Creeft, Demotte Inc., Jerome Eddy, Lillian Genthe, Arthur Hill Gilbert, George B. Guthrie, Rockwell Kent, Louis Kronberg, Gisella Loeffler, Carlos Mérida, Isamu Noguchi, Walter Pach, Diego Rivera, Waler Elmer Schofield, David Alfaro Siquieros, Ladislas Szecsi, Wildenstein & Company, and many others.
Files are found for about ten exhibitions, including Etching and Engravings by the Old Masters (1921), Airview Paintings (1930), American Landscape Art (1930), Arts of New Guinea (1964), and for exhibitions of Emil Gelhaar, Wassily Kandinsky, Sydney Laurence, and Roberto Montenegro.
Subject files are found for numerous artists, art topics, galleries, and foundations. Most of the files consist of printed materials, but there is correspondence and additional primary source material found in files for Nicolai Ivanovich Feshin, the Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Armin Hansen, Joseph Kleitsch, Aston Knight, José Clemente Orozco, Edgar Payne, Ralph M. Pearson, Pablo Picasso, William Ritschel, Diego Rivera, Ethel B. Rose, Guy Rose, Walter Elmer Schofield, David Alfaro Siquieros, Ladislas Szecsi, William Wendt, and Ignacio Zuloaga.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged as 4 series.
Missing Title
Series 1: Administrative and Financial Files, 1923-1957 (0.4 linear feet; Box 1)
Series 2: Correspondence, 1923-1968 (2.0 linear feet; Box 1-3)
Series 3: Exhibition Files, circa 1921-1967 (0.4 linear feet; Box 3)
Series 4: Subject Files, 1907-1971 (4.6 linear feet; Box 3-8, OV 9)
Biographical / Historical:
Earl Stendahl established Stendahl Art Galleries in 1911 in Los Angeles, California.
Earl Stendahl (1887-1966) came to Southern California from a small town in Wisconsin. He began showing young Los Angeles artists at his downtown restaurant, The Black Cat Café. He opened his gallery in The Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard and organized shows focusing primarily on California Impressionists of the early twentieth century, including Edgar Payne, Guy Rose, William Wendt, Nicolai Fechin, and Joseph Kleitsch.
Stendahl Art Galleries also began to sell European and Latin American modern art. In 1939, Stendahl hosted one of only two non-museum exhibitions of Pablo Picasso's masterwork, Guernica, to benefit Spanish War orphans.
As early as 1935 Stendahl began promoting ancient artifacts from Mexico and Central America. Stendahl's first client for pre-Columbian art and artifacts was noted collector Walter Arensberg. Stendahl and the Arensburgs became friends and Stendahl helped the Arensburgs build one of the most significant collections in the U.S.
The galleries are currently owned by Ronald W. Dammann, Stendahl's grandson.
Provenance:
The Stendahl Art Galleries records were donated by Alfred Stendahl in 1976. An album of clippings was donated by Stendahl in 1995 via Nancy Moure.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. Research Center.
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New forms in door ornamentation executed in metal, crystal, glass, ebony, enamel, marble and ceramics presented by the Yale and Towne Manufacturing Company ; created by Philip C. Johnson [and others], and a sculpture by Jacques Lipchitz entitled by the artist "Welcome."
Veronese to Franz Kline : masterworks from the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk / selected by Denys Sutton ; catalogue by Mario Amaya and Eric Zafran ; edited by Mario Amaya
Wildenstein and Company (New York, N.Y.). Messrs. E. Gimpel & Wildenstein, New York, N.Y. invitation to Mary Fanton Roberts, New York, N.Y., 1918. Mary Fanton Roberts papers, 1880-1956. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Wildenstein and Company (New York, N.Y.). Wildenstein & Co. sales receipt for Henri Harpignies painting Flowers in a landscape, 1963 May 15. Schaeffer Galleries records, circa 1921-1982. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Modern portraits : the self & others : an exhibition / organized by the Department of Art History and Archaeology of Columbia University in the City of New York for the benefit of the Graduate Research Fund ; sponsored by the Advisory Council of the Department
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Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology Search this
Wildenstein and Company (New York, N.Y.) Search this
Great Chinese painters of the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties, XV to XVIII centuries : a loan exhibition for the benefit of the Asia Institute, March 11 to April 2, 1949, Wildenstein, New York
The sources of modern painting; a loan exhibition assembled from American public and private collections by the Institute of Modern Art at Wildenstein and Co., April twenty fifth through May twentieth, 1939
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Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.) Search this
Wildenstein and Company (New York, N.Y.) Search this
Treasures from Rochester : Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester : exhibited at Wildenstein Galleries, New York, April 14-May 28, 1977 : summary catalogue / by Denys Sutton
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University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery Search this
Degas' racing world. A loan exhibition of paintings, drawings and bronzes. For the benefit of the National Museum of Racing, Saratoga. March 21st to April 27th
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Wildenstein and Company (New York, N.Y.) Search this
The art and life of Vincent van Gogh. Loan exhibition in aid of American and Dutch war relief. Catalogue compiled by Mr. Georges de Batz, with an introduction by Dr. Alfred M. Frankfurter. October 6th to November 7th, 1943
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Wildenstein and Company (New York, N.Y.) Search this
Landmarks in American art, 1670-1950; a loan exhibition of great American paintings. For the benefit of the American Federation of Arts, Feb. 26th to Mar. 28th, 1953, at Wildenstein
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Wildenstein and Company (New York, N.Y.) Search this
Baur, John I. H (John Ireland Howe) 1909-1987 Search this
